[ANN] Announcing gemcert, a simple certificate generator

lel lel at envs.net
Wed Jul 15 21:53:43 BST 2020


On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:33:59PM +0300, Hannu Hartikainen wrote:
> Cool! This is very welcome; I scratch my head every time I use openssl.
> 
> I personally greatly prefer GNU argument conventions, ie. dual dashes for
> long arguments (--server) and short single-dash versions of the most common
> arguments (-s). Even if you don't want to implement this now, changing the
> docs to use the dual dash versions would make changing later possible.
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argument-Syntax.html
> 
> I'd also like if the generated filenames contained the domain name. Nice
> for vhost configurations.
> 
> -Hannu

For context, it's this way because solderpunk is using the go `flag` package,
which doesn't support GNU flags. Writing it that way would require pulling in
some external dependency, and probably doing some rewrites of the CLI flag
parsing.

~ lel


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